Announcing Sycamore v0.5.0!
SSR + Routing
Hello everybody! Sycamore is a library for building isomorphic web applications in Rust and WebAssembly.
I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released v0.5.0. This is the biggest release yet, with loads of new features and bug fixes.
(By the way, if you are looking for another library called “Maple”, you found
it. Maple is now called Sycamore because Maple was already a trademarked name
for another software product. The new crate name is
sycamore on crates.io.).
What’s New?
Server Side Rendering
Yep! That’s right. Sycamore now supports server side rendering. A big shoutout
to @lights0123 for taking initiative to
implement this feature in
this Pull Request.
The hello world for SSR is just as simple for rendering to the DOM:
use sycamore::prelude::*;
fn main() {
let string = sycamore::render_to_string(|| template! {
p { "Hello, world!" }
});
println!("{}", string); // Prints <p>Hello, world!</p>
}
Just use sycamore::render_to_string instead of sycamore::render and you’re
good to go.
Check out the docs on server side rendering for more information.
Routing
This release also introduces a full-featured routing system. Routing is provided
by the sycamore-router crate.
Creating a router is as easy as pie!
use sycamore_router::Route;
#[derive(Route)]
enum MyRoutes {
#[to("/")]
Index,
#[to("/about")]
About,
#[not_found]
NotFound,
}
Just slap #[derive(Route)] on your enum and there you have it. Your very own
router.
Check out the docs on routing to learn more.
New documentation website
The new documentation website is ready to roll. It is completely built with Sycamore. In fact, the source code is available right here: github.com/sycamore-rs/sycamore/tree/master/docs.
Check out the new documentation website at sycamore-rs.netlify.app.
New Quick Start templates
We’ve also added three new templates for getting started with Sycamore.
sycamore-trunk-gitpod-template- Template for creating a Sycamore Single Page Application (SPA).sycamore-rocket-minimal-template- Bare bones template for building a Sycamore app with Rocket and server side rendering.sycamore-rocket-template- SvelteKit-like started for creating a Sycamore isomorphic application.
Conclusion
As always, a big thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible! This would not have been possible without you.
For more detailed changes, check out the changelog.
If you are interested in contributing to Sycamore, check out the issues labeled
with
good first issue
on our GitHub repository. Don’t hesitate to swing by our
Discord server too! See you there.
Thanks!